Equality Quotes

In Nicaragua, liberty, equality and the rule of law were the stuff of dreams. But in Paris I discovered the value of those words.

If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.

Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal.

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently.

The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

Equality of rights means that some people cannot simply impose obligations on others, for the moral agency and rights of those others would then be violated.

Our goals for this nation must be nothing less than to double the size of our economy and bring prosperity and jobs, ownership and equality of opportunity to all Americans, especially those living in our nation's pockets of poverty.

Even the striving for equality by means of a directed economy can result only in an officially enforced inequality - an authoritarian determination of the status of each individual in the new hierarchical order.

Martin Luther King, Jr. didn't carry just a piece of cloth to symbolize his belief in racial equality; he carried the American flag.

Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole.

The word 'equality' shows up too much in our founding documents for anyone to pretend it's not the American way.

The bill neither confers nor abridges the rights of anyone but simply declares that in civil rights there shall be equality among all classes of citizens and that all alike shall be subject to the same punishment.

In the 1960s we were fighting to be recognized as equals in the marketplace, in marriage, in education and on the playing field. It was a very exciting, rebellious time.

You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.

As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.

The cry of equality pulls everyone down.

The only way to get gay issues off the front pages of Canadian newspapers is to grant gay and lesbian people our full civil equality and leave it alone.

Yugoslavia is a multinational community and it can survive only under the conditions of full equality for all nations that live in it.

I should like to suggest to you that the cause of all the economic troubles is that we have an economic system which tries to maintain an equality of value between two things, which it would be better to recognise from the beginning as of unequal value.

The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.

A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.

The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.

The work that must be done for each woman to reconnect with her psyche and to give herself a chance to live her own life is essentially the same. The realization of the equality of all races, the equality of all beings is essential.

I believe there is complete equality between men and women. And I believe those passages in the New Testament, not by Jesus, but by Paul, that say women should not adorn themselves, they should always wear hats or color their hair in church - things like that - I think they are signs of the times and should not apply to modern-day life.

Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women's' point of view.

Think of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I would as soon submit the subject of the equality of a goose to a fox.

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.

And think of how we challenged the idea of a male dominated Parliament with All-Women shortlists and made the cause of gender equality central to our government. We were right to do so.

I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.